Henning Melber is an advisor and Director Emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, which he directed from 2006 to 2012. He was a research associate for International Relations at the University of Kassel, Director of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit in Windhoek, and Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala.
Henning is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and at the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, and he served on the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives. From 2017 to 2023, he was President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). He holds a doctorate in Political Sciences and completed his habilitation in development sociology.
